Fastening for wagon-boxes



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B. I. HULIN.

FASTENING FOR WAGON BOXES.- No. 248,751. Patented Oct. 25,1881.

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lUNiTE STATES PATENT 'Trrcn,

BENJAMIN I. HULIN, OF CAMBRIDGE, ILLINOIS.

FASTENING FOFt WAGON-BOXES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,751, dated October 25, 1881. application filed April 23, 1881. (N0 modelt) To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, BENJAMIN I. HULIN, a citizen of the United States. a resident ofCambridge, in the county of Henry and State of Illinois, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Fastenin 's for VVagon-Boxes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being bad to the annexed drawing, making a part of this specificatiomand to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

The figure of the drawing is a representation of the device in use.

This invention has relation to means for securing the upper box of a wagon-body to the lower or permanent box, in order to prevent the opening of the joint and. the consequent loss of grain; and theinvention consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the curved and weighted hook on the top box or board, and the eye plate or brace on the lower box, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, the letter A designates the lower or permanent box of the wagon, having the plate or brace 13, provided at its upper end with an eye, 0.

I) represents the upper or removable box or box-board, having the cleats E, or other sup- 4 port, for holding it upright on the lower box.

G indicates the curved hook. This is pivoted byits middle portion to the upper board, D, and is provided'with a weighted arm, h, which is arranged on the opposite side of the pivot it from the hook-branch l, but forming an angle therewith, as indicated in the drawing. This book is pivoted near one of the cleats E, or near a stop, its distance horizontally from the same being less than the length of the arm h, so that when the hook is disengaged from the eye 0 and thrown upward said arm will come in contact with the cleat or stop, and, being sufticiently weighted, will hold the hook-branch up so that it will remain in position above the lowermargin of the upper board, D, and will not be liable to injury in the removal of said board from the box A.

\Nhen the upper box is in position and it is desired to use this t'asteningthe hookis thrown forward or lmckward, as the case may be, and descending with some degreeot' force, because of the weighted arm, its beak b enters the eye 0, and is automatically held in engagement therewith by the arm or handle h, the weight of which is now transferred to the opposite sFde of the pivot it.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure-by Letters Patent, is

In a wagon-fastening for connecting the upper and lowerbox, the curved hook G,whereof the weighted arm h and hook-branch Z form an angle with each other, as shown, the stop or cleat E, and the eye-brace or eye-plate, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

BENJAMIN I. HULIN.

Witnesses:

DANIEL BERNARD, V. L. DALRYMPLE. 

